Separatists in India continued with their killing spree, gunning down six Hindi-speaking migrant workers in Assam Sunday, taking the toll in the weeklong coordinated attacks ahead of Independence Day celebrations to 36, officials said.
The latest in a string of attacks on migrant workers was late Sunday when heavily armed militants killed two Hindi-speakers at Karbi Anglong district's Parokhowa village, about 280 km east of Assam's main city of Guwahati. Just before dawn Sunday, rebels in Rongmong Ghat village in the same district shot dead four Hindi-speaking people, including a woman.
Three of those killed belonged to a Marwari family originally hailing from Rajasthan and another from Bihar - both the families were petty shopkeepers residing in Assam for decades.
